Ep 202 – Nauvoo Expositor: Destruction

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

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4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, the Nauvoo City Council spends all day 10 June 1844 deliberating about how to deal with the Nauvoo Expositor. The push through the council a new ordinance concerning libelous publications then spend the rest of the day discussing whether or not the Expositor should be declared a “public nuisance,” and therefore necessary to remove. They side with Joseph Smith in his calls for vote in favor and the marshal, John P. Greene, obeys the Mayor’s orders and destroys the printing press and ransack the office. The Nauvoo Legion were also called to assist the marshal and martial law is declared by the prophet, priest, king, lieutenant-general, and presidential candidate, Joseph Smith.

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https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-city-council-rough-minute-book-february-1844-january-1845/28#full-transcript

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I am Ryan McKnight.
0:01.5	I'm Kara Santa Maria.
0:03.0	I am Christopher Smith.
0:04.6	Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.
0:06.0	This is Naked Mormonism.
0:09.1	The Serial Mormon History Podcast.
0:14.5	It's June 9, 1844.
0:18.7	The novel expositor had been published. The public was in an outrage about the salacious revelations contained therein.
0:27.2	The Navu leadership were in constant special meetings to determine how to handle the Navu expositor.
0:32.9	The first edition was a massive threat, but the danger of what it might publish in subsequent
0:38.8	editions loomed as the most dangerous threat to Joe and his clandestine church.
0:45.2	The expositor took aim not only at polygamy, but at the incredible amount of power held
0:50.1	by Navu elites. The editor, Sylvester Emmons, advocated openly for a blanket repeal of the
0:57.2	Navu Charter, which would completely upend the Mormon settlement and thereby moot all of the
1:03.4	powers granted by the city government to the Mormon leadership. It was a tenuous theocratic
1:09.8	empire, and Joe was the criminal kingpin atop this shaky lattice.
1:14.6	Add into the confusion, most of Joe's closest and trusted allies were all across the nation to
1:21.7	electioneer and to kind of help posture Joseph in a favorable position for the coming 1844 presidential election.
1:30.5	The usual circle of elite bodyguards who had sworn oaths to protect the profit at the cost of their own lives was running as a skeleton crew right now.
1:40.0	The High Council couldn't form a quorum to meet.
1:42.0	The Council of 50 had less than half of its members in the boundaries of the city. Joseph had never been so vulnerable. He attempted to
1:49.7	handle the issue of the Navajo Expositor within the City Council. The meeting of the City
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